I agree that mining bitcoin is not going to be profitable.But I thought you talked about general mining.alsomost miners are big companies now with insane hash-ratesthat doesn't really make a big difference if you're not talking about difficultyyou can make money with any hashrate basicallyyou have the same return and roi with one asic and with mutiple asics

How would you go about mining other coins? Just started out, using minergate and gpu stops working after like 45 second but cpu keeps going no problems. But I want to expand and have no idea where to start.

Gotcha. I basically paid $40 for unlimited access to the source code of EthOS; it's been a solid platform for AMD mining with good support and a solid forum community/IRC support. It also has some great VM functionality and remote editing which makes the rig super easy to maintain and update even if I'm on the road; couldn't ask for more from a $40 piece of software.

I haven't tried mining decred, but the way the EthOS is set up, it runs on a stratum node (which has some built-in proxy chaining and packet encryption, I believe). QTMiner, from what I understand, is somewhat outdated/inefficient for mining eth, which may be contributing to your slow speeds. Initially, I tried mining on both a vanilla gentoo with QTMiner loaded, and then a Windows platform with an implementation of stratum/ethproxy. Once I changed over to the EthOS, my hashing rates were about 10% higher than the linux platform (which was about 10% higher than the windows platform, even with the improved stratum mining setup). Plus, in the long term, you'll probably be paying more than $40 with the time you'll be mining for Claymore, I'd guess.

Yeh, it'll appear in your wallet. If you use a pool you'll often have to set how much to payout - for example my pool pays out when you've reached 1ETH by default but you can change that to more or less.

You can still solo mine ETH but it'll take you forever to get anything.

Your PC is fine, all that matters with coin mining is the GPU. More GPUs, more MH/s

You might want to wait for the AMD 480 that is out on the 29th to see how that performs. Benchmarks in synthetic tests show it to be fast than the 390x and it's also cheaper (around $199) how it will preform in mining is anyone's guess right now though,

You can use the setup you're running but they don't recommend it : 'Mining using the standard ethminer is no longer recommended. '

I don't know why though, never looked into it.

Less than I did a few days back $ wise. I make about 1/415 ETH a month, I save half and trade the rest for BTC to buy/sell shitcoins on Yobit/Trex etc.

I already had a 290x, then I bought a couple of used 370's (best hash rate per wattage currently I believe) for about $230 total. Took me about 5 weeks when ETH was still $14 to cover the costs of the two cards.

You can work that out from a ethereum mining calculator, just google it once you've worked out what cards to get. You can also sell the cards later at a good price if you stop.

ETH will go from POW (proof of work) to POS (proof of stake) which mean you won't be able to mine it anymore, but when that is going to happen? Who knows.

You'll be able to mine other coins no problem, however you might want to look into renting out your miners (google it) that way you just get paid in BTC while other people rent your rig to mine altcoins.

Don't buy power, just invest in solar.Think about it.The market is flooded with miners that don't really turn a profit on billed power, so they don't really hold any value to the owner. They want to make some fast cash so they sell it for cheap. You pick it up, plug it into your solar system and you never stop making money with it (assuming you have enough solar panels and batteries).

18650 batteries are the best in battery tech, and you get around 7.5 Wh for $10 (Panasonic 3400mAh, can't really get better than that), or you can get a lot of these for super cheap from scraping old laptop batteries (I got 20 that way from 3). Look around on eBay and Amazon, and make sure you don't use bad batteries. The capacity won't be all that great, but it by far the cheapest route you can go.

Maybe you can shoot some crypto-profits over my way from all of the advice I gave you.

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